DJ Assault is known as a global pioneer of the Detroit ghettotech sound. The incorporation of electro beats with hardcore, sometimes pornographic lyrics, is what makes ghettotech highly distinguishable from its other techno cousins.

During the summer of 1996, Assault released the first Straight Up Detroit Sh*t (SUDS) mix CD. Due to the first CD's popularity, Assault released the second volume that September. More popularity would follow with the ghettotech anthems "Ass and Titties" and "Sex on the Beach." After only a year of being in business, DJ Assault was able to say that they had sold more records than any other techno artist in the region at that time.